As part of the project of Center for Knowledge Society with the CDA of 3ezbet Bekheet in Mansheyet Naser, GNU/Linux is now installed in Mansheyet Nasr with the cooperation of EGLUG.

Yesterday (Thursday 11th November 2004), Manal, Alaa, Ezabi, MohammedSameer and DJ-King's laptop arrived @ Mansheyet Nasr @ 9 p.m after getting lost on the "autostraud" looking for a u-turn.

First, Ezabi and Manal were setting up the network, (Ezabi did the major part of course) while Alaa and MohammedSameer were installing GNU/Linux on one of the pcs in preparation of a network install.

We began the network install after midnight and we fought hard against cdroms, floppies and floppy drives, mouses and keyboards. We succeeded in installing Mandrake 10.1 on 9 out of the 12 pcs.

We were done with the installation around 4 a.m, and we spent 3 more hours installing arabic fonts and some extra packages, showing GNU/Linux to Nasha2t and Mohammed of the CDA and closing the ducts and wrapping the cables.

Manal will give a GNU/Linux introductory course to the staff of the CDA (as part of her job in Center for Knowledge Society ) after el 3eed.

I think we had fun yesterday and we did a very good job, have a look at the photos .